Welcome back, everyone.
Plenty of fun in frogs neck today and it was all thanks to the
NYP DS Community Affairs Unit.
We've been oohing and eyeing already all through this video and
news tells Dan Serafin was there as well to see what students at
the Saint Joseph's school for the deaf. Got to experience.
It was not a normal Thursday for these students in throgs neck.
The nypd's Community Affairs Unit brought with them plenty to
give these kids an experience even landing a helicopter in their
backyard.
It made me happy. I was excited.
It was really nice. It was really, really nice.
I was excited because it's the first time I saw the helicopter
and also the horses. That was exciting too.
All this as the NYPD says they want kids to meet the men and
women of the force.
The goal of today is to really give the disability community an
idea of what the police department does.
It's a really special experience for deaf kids to see police
officers who in the community who can sign a with them.
That's really valuable.
One of about 10 officers throughout the city who is fluent in
sign language was on hand today,
able to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing students
at the school.
So we really want to build relationships with all communities.
And I think the disability community don't really get to see the
police every single day as far as in this engagement setting.
So we want to be able to bring that to the school.
I feel like they'll protect us.
School officials tell us they have done several events with the
NYPD in the past. But this is the first of its kind,
giving kids the chance to really get up close and personal with
many of the things the NYPD used on a day to day basis and this
helicopter, well,
school officials tell me the last time a helicopter landed on
this campus was back in the 19 eighties in Throgs Neck.
I'm Dan Serafin News 12.